As "Sherlock Holmes, consulting detective," Charlotte Holmes has solved murders and found missing individuals. But she has never stolen a priceless artwork--or rather, made away with the secrets hidden behind a much-coveted...

Journalist Michael Booth has lived among the Scandinavians for more than ten years, and he has grown increasingly frustrated with the rose-tinted view of this part of the world offered up by the Western media. In this timely book he...

In 1989, a North Korean dissident writer, known to us only by the pseudonym Bandi, began to write a series of stories about life under Kim Il-sung’s totalitarian regime. Smuggled out of North Korea and set for publication around the...

What do sexual violation, murderous farm implements, and Stonehenge all have in common? Thomas Hardy’s classic heartbreaker. On the one hand, this might be the most depressing novel you’ll ever read. On the other hand, women have come a...

In 1787, desperate to leave England, Jessa Winter marries a wounded American, Noah McClellan. She expects to become a widow and escape to his homeland. But she hasn't counted on Noah's will to survive--nor his desire to make her his...

Caricatured by Charles Dickens in Little Dorrit as the cantankerous maid of Mr. and Mrs. Meagles, “Tattycoram” tells her own life story in this utterly compelling metafiction by the celebrated author of Isobel Gunn. Throughout her...

Gwendolyn Poole Molnar’s recollections offer us a rare look into the life of a child growing up in Pilley’s Island in the first decades of the twentieth century, before roads, electricity, and telephones connected the island community...

This collection of eleven short stories by one of our greatest American writers includes “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” and “May Day.”

When prim and thrifty Eve Dinwoody agrees to control the purse strings of Harte's Folly, London's premier pleasure garden, she butts heads with the infuriating Asa Makepeace. But the harder Eve tries to manage him, the harder it is to...